Knitted fabric



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M. GBRNSHYM.

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No. 467,091. Patented Jan. 12, 1892.

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MAX GERNSHYM, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

KNITTED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,091, dated January12, 1892.

Application led July 22, 1891.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX GERNSHYM, of the city of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved KnittedFabric, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to fabrics produced on circular-knitting machinessuch as shown and described in the Letters Patent of the United StatesNo. 462,546, granted to me under date of November 3, 1891.

The invention consists in a tubular knit fabric having its coursesknitted partly with plain loops and partly with circularly-trans ferredloops.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which the figure is a perspective view of theimproved fabric.

The improved fabric is produced on circular-knitting machines such asdescribed in the patent above referred to. The fabric is knitted in acontinuous circular form and is provided with a back A and a front B, ofwhich the former is knotted in plain ribs with cardigan or other stitch,while the front B is knitted in a figured design, according to apredetermined pattern, by circularly-transferred loops. To obtain thisresult the needle-plate of the knitting-machine is madein fixed andmovable sections in order that when the fabric is being knitted themovable section may be shifted so that the needles in the latter changetheir position relative to the vertical cylinder-needles andtherebychange the contiguration of that part of the fabric knitted bythe movable section and the corresponding cylinderneedles. The movablesection is shifted so that each of its needles moves the distancebetween two, three, four, orv more vertical needles to vary the designof the ornamental part of the fabric as desired. It is Serial Nol400,294- (Specimens.)

understood that each circular course of the fabric is thus knitted withneedles part of which vary their positions, so that each course isformed with sets of different stitches, of which one set is plain andthe other varied, according to a design or pattern. thus produced is inpart plain and the remainin g portion is ornamental.r A like result isobtained by making the needle-cylinder in tixed and movableneedle-sections, of which the latter are shifted relative to thecorresponding needles on the circular needle-plate. By making both theneedle-plate and the needle-cylinder in fixed and movableneedlesections, of which the latter are shifted relative to the fixedsections, a like result is obtained-that is, part of the tubular fabricis knitted plain and the rest in an ornamental design.

It is understood that the fabric is produced in a continuous tubularform and is then afterward out up and trimmed to form jackets and othergarments, of which part is plain and the rest in design, thus producingfine goods of a rich appearance and at the same cost as the ordinaryplain goods.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A tubular knitted fabric having each course knitted partly'with plainloopsand partly with circularly-trausferred loops, substantially asdescribed.

2 A fabric formed with a series of tubular knitted courses, each partlyformed by plain loops to form a ribbed back and partly by transferredloops to produce an ornamental front7 substantially as described.

MAX GERNSHYM.

Witnesses:

THEO. G. HosTER, C. SEDGWICK.

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